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Abstract of the preceding Rectified
Valuation Roll 1814.



PARISHES TOTAL

PAGES. NO. SCOTS MONEY

29 1 North Leith-- £ 1220.17.0
31 2 South Leith-- 6413. 2.11
33 3 Abbey of Holyroodhouse-- 4365.0.0
34 4 Duddingston-- 3687.11.8
35 5 Libberton-- 13685.6.8
38 6 West Kirk, or St Cuthbert's-- 29045.5.6
55 7 Hails, or Collington-- 4514.10.0
58 8 Corstorphine-- 5692.2.4¼
61 9 Cramond-- 9591.10.11¾
63 10 Currie-- 5363.2.8
65 11 Ratho-- 6252.13.8
68 12 Kirkliston, south side Water of Amond-- 3578.0.0
69 13 Kirknewton-- 1053.0.0
70 14 Calderclear, or East Calder-- 2707.3.4
72 15 Mid-Calder-- 5157.10.4
74 16 West-Cald-- 3153.10.4
77 17 Inveresk-- 15,373.2.6
82 18 Dalkeith-- 7548.12.2
87 19 Newton-- 4887.15.2
88 20 Newbottle-- 7138.16.8
90 21 Lasswade-- 7436.6.8
92 22 Woodhouselee, or Glencorse-- 1579.8.0
94 23 Pennicuick-- 3780.3.4
95 24 Cockpen-- 3068.15.8
96 25 Carrington, or Primrose-- 2830.0.0
97 26 Cranston-- 6208.1. 4
98 27 Crichton-- 4123.17.8
99 28 Falls-- 674.0.0
101 30 Temple-- 4399.10.0
103 31 Herriot-- 2803.10.0
104 32 Stow-- 8239.13.4

Total 1814-- £191,055.17.7

Total 1726-- 191,053.17.2

Difference, 40s. 5d. Scots £2.0.5




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CONCLUSION.


In a work so involved in figures, tracing Cumulo Valuations from the earliest Roll down to the
present time, through Divisions, Sub-divisions, want of descriptions of Lands, and change of Pro-
prietors, errors must naturally have crept in; but these, so far as could be discovered, have been
corrected: And it may be here observed, that the sum total of the Roll 1726 is only Forty Shilling
and Five Pennies Scots, and that in 1738, Thirty-three Shilling and Nine Pennies Scots, less than
the Rectified Valuation Roll 1814 ; which shews that no Valuations, however complicated, have
been overlooked or omitted.


Where separate Valuations could be easily stated and added, they are drawn out in Cumulo ;
others, Abstracts of them are made ; and when neither could be easily done, reference is made to
them.


In Parishes principally Landward, the description of the lands applicable to each Valuation, as
far as could be obtained, are mentioned ; while it was next to impossible, in Parishes partly Land-
ward, and partly Urban, such as St Cuthbert's, Inveresk, Dalkeith, South and North Leith, &c.
where houses stand separately valued, to mark the description of the variety of Urban Valuations,
other than by the Names of the original and present Proprietors, where the descriptions are un-
known, or could not be discovered. Superiors often change, and cannot be easily traced; besides,
it is the Proprietors, and not the Superiors, who pay the Land-Tax,------the regular Collection of
which is the great object of a Rectified Valuation Roll.


In short, from local knowledge, and every information that could be obtained, and a strict adher-
ence to the Text Roll 1726, aided by that in 1702, and the certified one in 1738, a rough draft
of the Rectified Valuation Roll of the County of Edinburgh, for the year 1814, is humbly sub-
mitted to the consideration and amendment of the Committee, by

WILL. MACFARLANE.

Edinburgh, George's Street, 30th April 1814.


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Edinburgh, Parliament House, 14th November 1814.

The Commissioners of Supply for the County of Edinburgh, at a General Meeting, held of this
date, approved of the Scroll of the preceding Rectified Valuation Book, or Cess Roll, and appointed
the same to be printed.


GEORGE CLERK, Preses.


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Alex. Smellie, Printer, Edinburgh.

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